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> the argument for "human intelligence at a higher speed" fails on several grounds I'd be interested if you said more about that.

• pron 11y ago
  Sure, but you need to understand that I'm not trying to predict what would necessarily happen, only to show how such a thing could possibly fail. Think what could happen if your brain worked much faster. The world will mostly seem to slow down. A very conceivable outcome is one of boredom and possibly madness. You could perhaps multi-task and think of many different things, but we are generally terrible at multitasking, so we have no idea whether an intelligence even could multitask well. Another problem is that we don't know anything about the information capacity of a mind. A faster mind of the same size could potentially have trouble dealing with all that extra information (again -- madness, maybe?) One thing that hints at those capacity limits is the need for sleep. We don't know why, but some hypotheses say that it's necessary to do some "information cleanup" operations in the brain. It is possible that an AI would need to sleep, too. The AI may need to sleep a lot more to handle much more information. It is therefore conceivable at least that a mind has to work at a speed that is commensurate with the speed of the world around it, and one that is appropriate for its capacity.